JC&A Directors Cesar Cordova and Jorge Velazquez started this week a series of meetings in Hanoi to assist the Vietnamese Commission for Standards, Metrology and Quality improve the processes of drafting high quality Technical Regulations. We are assisting preparation of two Guidelines on good regulatory principles and on the use of Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA).
Scott Jacobs talked about regulatory reform at the World Governments Summit in Dubai this week. Razan Salman, CNN’s Senior Economy & Government Reporter, hosted the discussion with Scott Jacobs and the OECD deputy head of the regulatory program, Daniel Trnka. She wrote, “An insightful conversation on Regulatory Impact Assessments, part of the Global Government Regulatory Forum
Licensing reform! JC&A has decided to post one of our regulatory reform tools for general use. This is the Decision Tree for Licensing Reforms that we’ve developed to guide reviews of several thousand licenses over the years. The first page helps you determine whether a license is needed and the second page helps you determine
Prime Minister of Pakistan approves one of the largest regulatory reform initiatives in the world (REMIT, Year in Review, https://lnkd.in/gYZcAgdr)
JC&A is pleased that the Commonwealth has recently published the Handbook on Designing and Implementing RIA Systems written by Scott Jacobs. The Handbook on Designing and Implementing RIA Systems (the ‘Handbook’) is intended to assist Commonwealth governments in designing and implementing programmes of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) across multiple regulatory institutions. It identifies major risk
Supported by FCDO-funded The Adam Smith International–REMIT program and Jacobs Cordova & Associates, the Regulatory GuillotineTM in government procedures will improve investment climate by reducing thousands of regulations and formalities leading to much needed robustness to the economy. A new national registry will be set up which will become the first legal repository of all
Islamabad: August 05, 2024:Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb held a meeting with the Managing Director of Jacobs, Cordova and Associates Mr. Scott Jacobs at Finance Division today. Secretary Board of Investment and officials from relevant ministries/divisions were also present in the meeting. The meeting focused on the subject of regulatory reforms
Scott Jacobs presented a new paper, “What Comes Next? Innovation and Regulatory Forbearance,” at the conference, “Regulatory Governance in a Changing World,” June 17-18, 2024, at the University of Pennsylvania. In this short video, Jacobs presents his paper, arguing that we need risk managers rather than regulators to deal with transformational innovations. He argues that
JC&A is pleased to assist the Government of Uganda with measurement and evaluation of the results of a 2017 Standard Cost Model (SCM) review of licensing regimes, assessment of gains/losses of compliance costs for businesses (more than 30 focus groups), review of pending reforms and newer reforms introduced, reform of the licensing e-Portal and re-engineering
Jorge Velazquez, Director of JC&A, was pleased to meet with the Mayor of @GuadalajaraGob, Francisco Ramírez Salcido, to promote reforms to increase municipal competitiveness as part of the USAID #CompetitiveMunicipalities Project, @TheErgoGroup @USAIDMX @cceoficialmx @CEESP1
Scott Jacobs was invited to teach an applied RIA course to the staff of the Thailand National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) in Bangkok. Pictured is Scott Jacobs with NBTC Commissioner Suphat Suphachalasai, and NBTC staff, September 2023
